‘And Soon the Darkness’ – Stupid Characters, Shallow Plot
Looks like Marcos Efron’s 2010-released horror thriller ‘And Soon the Darkness’ is nothing but a travel warning to all Americans not to venture into foreign locales, known for crimes. The storyline looks simple and predictable considering the notoriety of any less-crowded and crime-infested tourist place (for that matter anywhere in the world). The storyline goes […]
‘Game Over’ – A Suspense Thriller With a Layered Storyline
“Game Over”– Directed by Ashwin Saravanan, the original Telugu-Tamil language home invasion – psychological thriller is now available for streaming on Netflix in the Hindi language (dubbed). Upon its theatrical release earlier this year in June, the film starring Taapsee Pannu (Pink) has so far garnered rave reviews for its multi-layered storyline, engaging narration, and […]
THE PERFECTION: With Few Interesting Twists & Turns
Netflix’s psychological thriller THE PERFECTION is one of those movies that keep us thinking about which way it goes amid its unremitting suspense and thrill, until the final twist. The movie is a great example of embedding suspense, horror, and drama in an evenly balanced-script. Director Richard Shepard’s THE PERFECTION follows Charlotte, a star cellist, […]
Netflix’s “Secret Obsession” – Predictable & Unimaginative
Netflix’s new psychological thriller “Secret Obsession”, directed by Peter Sullivan, is one of those films that try too hard to justify the genre but could not, as it becomes predictable with no surprises. The film, starring Brenda Song, Mike Vogel, and Dennis Haysbert, follows a young woman Jennifer (Song) trying to escape an unseen attacker, […]
Kidnapping Stella (2019) – Movie Review
Directed by Thomas Sieben, Netflix’s “Kidnapping Stella” is a German movie that follows the kidnapping of a girl and how she manages to come out of the clutches of the two of her masked kidnappers. In the beginning, we see two guys named Vic and Tom (we get to know the names later in the […]
FORGOTTEN (2017) – Korean Mystery Thriller (Must-Watch)
Directed by Jang Hang-ju, the South Korean mystery thriller film ‘FORGOTTEN’ (original title – Gi-eok-ui bam) follows the bonding between two brothers that starts to break after one gets kidnapped – and returns with no memory of the past 19 days. FORGOTTEN is probably one of the finest movies I have watched recently. Such a […]
Small Town Crime (2017) – Movie Review
An alcoholic ex-cop when sees a dying woman lying on the roadside, through an act of self-redemption, finds a purpose in his life to track down her killer, but the path is not so easy. Starring Robert Forster and John Hawkes, this slick thriller follows a disgraced ex-cop Mike Kendall (John Hawkes) who when discovers […]
A Quiet Place (2018) – Movie Review
Set in a post-apocalyptic earth, A Quiet Place deals with dreadful alien creatures that are now dangerous to the remaining human population, who are struggling to survive by turning quiet to everything. Yes, you make any sound and you’re a gone case. Those aliens use sound to track and kill humans. This Emily Blunt and […]
Black Spot TV Series – S1, Episode 1 to 4 Review
Created by Mathieu Missoffe, Black Spot (originally titled Zone Blanche or ‘White Zone’) is a French crime drama series in which the storyline is based on a small town Villefranche, nestled in the heart of a long-stretch forest range. The setting of the series looks very uncanny and mysterious, as the gradually deserted town is […]
Sci-fi Thriller ‘Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1’ (Movie Review)
Sci-fi thriller Alien Invasion: S.U.M.1 introduces us to post-apocalyptic planet earth after aliens take it over leaving mankind at peril, as most of the survivors are living underground in bunkers. The story follows young soldier S.U.M.1 (Iwan Rheon) who has been assigned a 100-day mission to venture into the jungle and guard the territory against […]